Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-06-04
TEDDY THEAKSTON.
THE COURSE OF TRUE LOVE DISTURBED.

look after the gentleman in question
The other Occupan, OF the smoking room, loung-
Ing 20 the length OF six feet and proportionate
breadth in the frailest OF cane chairs took the
slenderest OF cigarettes from his lips to answer
succin,tly:
''Kn ass"
George Eyerad the lover OF Cicely Greville: a
t:nie-h0nored description, sufficiently detailed.
seeing that he was so much a lover as to be moth
Ing else at this period OF his existence was stand
ing 6y the fire thawing his limbs stir with the
cold or long journey on a bleak January day: he
looked down on the recumbent figure with amuse-
inclt in his face and remarked:
zone couldn't pick him out Of a crowd by that.
Is he nothing else? What is he here foT?"
Leslie sighed, as one who peTfOrce resigns him.
SELF To the trouble " long answer and bean in
The mellow tones and deliberate manner which
gave effect to the style of his conversation
you've heard of Gullweil, the Beau.ifer?,
NO, haven't"
"NO! But / might have suruIsed az much.
IhOuSh That you should have been able to travel
FOR 50 many years between your rooms and the
Office without seeing something OF him, II you did
not near OF him, Is noteworthy"
Who wants 10 hear anything about Gulwell?"
MY Gear fellow, you have never opened novel
need 10 be told that il Is proper TO begin with the
nTst generation, 10 wit, IN this case, with the
grandfather OF The hero: Gullwell is the wOrld-re-
bO~ned inventor or nose machines, eye
openers, lip imprsEers, hair curriers', &C,
whose advertisements are found pasted
On the tropics and huttering from either
pole lie made everything whatever that beauti-
ITS including large fortune. He had three
daughters, part OF the dodge; he could experiment
Them, and they could put him up the require
ments oE the sex; they were called Cool Fragrant
and Delicious. after the complexion wash. Cool
ans: Fragrant died; Delicious married one samuel
1htakStnA- 10 whom was born a son. Teddy, at
present a guest in he ancient manor house OF
Grcylle'S Dyke, and likely remain So I'm afraid.
for indefinite period. As soon Old Gullwel
shall be good enough TO get out OF his dotage into
his grave said Teddy comes into many millions,
billions, trlllions. don't know the exact figure
Dut you can tack on cyphers 10 please yourself
There's nothing so easy 10 add ana its one of the
biggest piles ever made at the expense 01 credu-
lUuo pubic"
You may well say tack on the cyphers, then
but you have hot told me why he IS here?"
Leslie glanced at his friends face, entirely
disturbed by what he had heard, with a somewhat
haven't L" he said. Thought i had Well,
you must be left To the enlightenment OF events.
Il-nr. a. the story books say, viii show"
Is there anybody else staying here"
''Uit Lady Cliutecs and her grandchildren: and
yOane woman she brought with her OF the name
OF Rabbit
.Rabhit? ImpOssible.~
LEGALLY; does it strike you so? Well, then, per-
haps II was Hare II that sounds more reasonable.
L0QN TO your deTeTses There are four OF US; Gre
VILE, TheakStOn, you and land Miss Whatever
her-naine-may-be viii marry the weakest 10 a GER
tdinty. Yes As sure / am an unprotected
bachelor. have invoked all the gods TO preserve
Inc rom such late
MY dear fellow. do not lind it so easy TO get
Married IA you Imagine, answered George, think
ing or Cicely. Miss Hare could be nothing TO him;
not Il very safe prediction. by-Ihe-bre for any one.
human being TO make OF another in TINS narrow
world; which OF US can say who shall be any thing
10 aim. before the end OF the chapter?
sweet Cicely GreVilIe, with her dark eyes
her bright unexpected answers, her proruk-
Ing independence, her adorable gentleness-
no IL was not So easy. he thought. Ills
cOGrtslip OF her, IL such e knOck-kneed PERFORM
anre could be called cOuTtship, had been going
on quite long enough: was likely at this rate togo
on Till dOomsday. until she was married 10 some
holder man. 80 he had told himself i'll The train
and he had come down from town full of resolu-
uon 10 know his fate, this time, one way or an
other But now "a he stood the rug. staring at
Leslie without seeing him, it seemed very likely
him, that when he was far of, ne would plot and
plan 10 be near her more: to insure his never
having To part from her again; and when he was
near ne would feel how excellent a thing is pa
tience-what good friend Time-and how foolish
II would be 10 run the risk OF losing all by start
ling or offending her.
his had been life of hard. even ugly realities
much toll and care for Others. and very little
pleasure Tor himself; and this bright romance,
coming at time when liitlng OF the clouds
Madc space for IL TO settle, grown too dear for
him 10 face the possibility OF its un1avorable ter
InlnatlOn with anything Ike courage. Sucn IA
lover may finger fatally long on The brink, wait
Ing Tor a sign, and CiCe.y Grevile was nOJ one to
LIT finger for his encouragement.
Sweet and frank she was with an almost
childltke simplicity, there was a delicate touch
me-not air surrounding her, 10 which George was
extremely sensitive And as he thought, he never
got any nearer.
But here his uneasiness ended However little
he might De 10 her, he knew that no other man
was more. Hitherto he had had no rival
The nrelight shOne her sunny hair on her
tlfOdt a. sue came forward TO greet him. How
Eur she looked, and he thought with panC of
mingled pam and pleasure, how young! He hoped
tii1t no one saw his emotion. Cicely at any rate
showed no consciousness OF IL. She was, as always
entirely mistress OF herself and OF the situation
She made him welcome, and introduced him TO
those he did not know. To Miss Hare, dark and
slender, OF the appearance called ladylike in the
description o. toilet known as half-mourning; TO
MI Iheakston, fair, tail, goOd-lOohing; made
much or by MRS. GTeyille, and tolerated by her
son- And in all her words and movements she
showed that ease and geDtleneSS OF manner he so
Well remembered and so greatly admired
IL beneath this graceful self possession were hid
den a shrinking mOdeSty. and the shyest heart in
the world how was Eyerad to know il?
Though The Inspiration almost came TO him that
eyening-that happy dreamlike evening, which he
was 10 recall IN the days that followed as a crown
Of sorrow 10 the.- pain. For he felt sure then
that she was a LITTLE glad 70 see him and To have
liIn at her side again. He could take her in TO
dinner he found; and he could stand by her chair
ID the draWln2-rOOm afterwaTd. while she told the
children the story OF the Three Bears, which. she
sld, they insisted on hearing every day. until Miss
Hare held out white be-r1nged hand 10 lead them
~ bed Then she moved TO the piano. and Theak-
stOn sprdny up TO turn over the leaves for her
making little CALCULATIONS ard remarks all the
time, ike one who cannot keep long silent: until
Eyerad could take his place. and watch the color
Cecpen IN C1ceIyS cheek at the change. He was
perfectly perfectly happy now, and calm; listening TO the
resolution he had made in the train, without
troubling as 10 how and when he would carry IL
out. DE could hear TheakStOu blbble. babbIing
all through the Lfeder, and he cared nothing at ali
about him. He seemed TO know the lad by heart
10 whom he had scarcely spoken. Indeed who
does not know a Teddy TheakSton, with his aston
lshlng now OF talk he could spin many words
out OF nothing as he would have delighted In ind
ihS IN perfection Soap" had these Interesting
competitions come in his way: his invaTiable
cheerfuiness, his too good opinion OF everybody
h!ASeI Included, his anecdotes and jokes, and his
little laugh?
But Ms. Greville was interrupting Ctcelys play
lhs that she might hear what Lady CIintOck was
reading, which she need not have DONE for It was
only j paragraph from what looked Ike an over
grown pamphlet, with a rose-colored cover where
II a prince, a priIna donna, diamond necklace
ana wager were connected with little-bir
iodine air OF mystery, which might have been
aSSraSatlng had the subject possessed any con-
ccivaole interest for anybody. And Miss Hare was
teasing Leslie 10 tell her how some one who an
peared 10 be mutual acquaintance came To be
The editor OF They say
Ne most powerrulOf human motives he told
heft Out she had not an idea what that could be
III was Ike this he said addressing himself 10
Clceiy, perhaps 10 e!ude the other young LADY
ne lost a. De had III d law suit: lost also naru-
rally, the lady he wanted 10 Marry Al-.r which
ne TOOK 10 literature, that he might taste Gae pang
OF despised love and the laws delay combined
having tried them both separately Didn't Ike.
the combined flavor IL is not everybody that
does So ne gave up literature. and wrote A shil-
ling novel Put murder at the beginning a
marriage at the end, and scattered dollars and
CARING all over the intervening pages This
brought him some money, wherewith he started
that charming rOSe-coiOred periodical; and have
Jusr heard that 40 Is engaged 10 the fascinating
Miss Loyepenny."
They ali laughed at Leslies little biography but